Shamil Idriss, the President and CEO of the international non-proft, Search for Common Ground, shares his views on peace-building.
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Thomas Hegghammer’s new book looks at the cultural practices of jihadists and poses the important question of why these fighters spend so much time on rituals, music, films, and storytelling.
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Tim Wu, in his new book, The Attention Merchants, shows us how technologists, profiteers and politicians take advantage of our vulnerabilities for their own advantage.
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The Human Journey project and website provides a comprehensive understanding of ourselves through the recent work of anthropologists, neurobiologists, psychologists, historians, and philosophers.
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On December 7-8, 2017, Ivan Tyrrell and John Bell delivered a training programme to Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), a conflict prevention and resolution organization in Helsinki, on the crucial role of human motivations and emotions in our politics.
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Ivan Tyrrell, a co-founder of The Conciliators Guild, explores some key questions in the overlap between psychology, politics and human nature.
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Mediator, Caroline Brooks, talks to us about her project looking at what makes young Syrians vulnerable to recruitment by armed groups—and ways to mitigate that vulnerability.
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Our new online course, ‘Fear and Political Chaos’ looks at how to bring clarity to societal upheaval through the lens of innate human needs.
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The late American anthropologist, Edward T. Hall wrote that many human differences are often accounted for by unconscious cultural habits that are “invisible” to its holders.
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To get move beyond the problems of conditioning, brainwashing and indoctrination, it is necessary to also recognize the psychological factors that facilitate those processes.
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Human conditioning is “a learned association between two things which consequently affects one’s actions.” It plays an outsize role not just in our personal lives, but in political behaviour.
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A deep human need for meaning and being part of a far larger purpose may be the fundamental driving force for people to join extremist groups.
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